Tuberculosis patient cost surveys: a handbook; 2017

TB patient cost surveys have two primary objectives:

1. To document the magnitude and main drivers of different types of costs incurred by TB patients (and their households) in order to guide policies to reduce financial access barriers and minimize the adverse socioeconomic impact of TB.
2. To determine the baseline and periodically measure the percentage of TB patients (and their households) treated in the national TB programme (NTP) network who incur catastrophic total costs due to TB.